Final Fantasy 7 Remake & Kingdom Hearts 3 to launch "in the next three years or so."

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I am not surprised actually. Most of the early screenshots and video we've seen for both titles looked like early concept videos instead of of say, early beta. I'm also pretty sure neither game even really began development until FFXvXIII/XV was finally put out, and considering the amount of DLC they still have planned for that, it would keep some resources thin. Not to mention DQ XI is SE's next big in-house development and that will do wonders in Japan.

I feel the real sad thing about all this, besides all the annoyed fans for KHIII who now have to wait even longer, is that this will likely mean SE has no plans to work on FFXVI until one of these two projects is out the door, meaning we probably won't hear about it until post-2020. Granted the article says "in the next three years" so KHIII might still get a holiday release next year optimistically. That's assuming SE doesn't overload Tetsuya Nomura's schedule with more easy side projects that will eat up all his spare time.

Last I heard they were still working on the intro sequence they showed off at the announcement. They're still working on something that was done and showed off, at the launch of the PS3

I'm done worrying about either of those games, and KH3 doesn't interest me at all. And I'm honestly not sure if I even trust them to do a good job anymore. Though they have been making some interesting choices recently, so I'll be satisfied seeing what they come up with in the meantime

Remember, "all of these within the next 3 years" is something entirely different than "all of these in 3 years". My bets are still on 2018 for KH3 (for Japan at least), it's almost definitely further along than FF7 Remake and the new Marvel game.

I feel like the jump to HD and then the development hell of 15 just completely screwed all of their plans and schedules, so with those two out of the way things should speed up at least a little again.

Wait wait wait wait WAIT! I'm sure the FFVII Remake was announced at last years E3, not in 2015. I can't believe how fast those two years have gone o.O

Anyway, hopefully the FFVII Remake will release "within" three years, not "in" three years. It's episodic, right? My bet is late 2018 for FFVII Episode 1, 2019 for KH3, then Nomura's focus can be on the rest of the FFVII project.

I wish SE would stop announcing things so damn early. Did they not learn a thing from the FFXIII / Fabula Nova Chrystallis fiasco?

Anyway, hopefully the FFVII Remake will release "within" three years, not "in" three years. It's episodic, right? My bet is late 2018 for FFVII Episode 1, 2019 for KH3, then Nomura's focus can be on the rest of the FFVII project.

That's wishful thinking. Square Enix is actually hiring right now for production on the FF7 Remake. They don't even have the full staff ready for the game yet.

It's actually terrible to think that only the FIRST PART of VII would be finished by 2020. We'd still have 2 more parts after that, which could be released in 2022 and 2024 if we're being optimistic.

That puts us at well over 7 years between now and the completion of the VII release cycle, and a total of 9 years since it was first announced back at E3 2015.

Yeah, it seems to me that Square-Enix really needs to be focusing more on getting their development cycles cut shorter. Which they probably could do if they didn't insist on all of their games having cutting edge, make your eyes bleed from the beauty, graphics. I mean if the VII Remake had just been done using the Crisis Core/Dissidia/Type0 engine, they wouldn't have to break it up into episodes and a 2018/19 window would probably be very likely.